George Washington Tuttle CHRONOLOGY
... I would greatly comply with your request for some reflections on the particularly attractive qualities of our lost Brother’s character appropriate to the occasion, but cannot hope to do the subject justice...
George Washington Tuttle, Theta 1836 (Union College)
[George Washington Tuttle] possessed that sweetness which made every acquaintness his warm friend, the most genial temperament which made it a peculiar pleasure to know him. In passing away he has left our Fraternity to lament him as one “whom none could know but to love him, and none name him but to praise.”
Born: March 24, 1817 Greene, New York Died: April 3, 1903 (aged 86) Bath, New York 1817 | George Washington Tuttle born 1832 | Matriculates at Union College 1833 | Co-founds Psi Upsilon 1836 | Graduates with a degree in law, begins practice and business in New York
Edward Martindale, Theta 1836 (Union College)
1841 | November: Married Ruth Coswell Wey in Windham, NY
Unfortunately, by 1882 George stopped attending Convention, sending his condolences that due to his advancing age he could not attend. He never provided his personal accounting of those earliest years. The Convention of 1903 included toasts and warm remembrances to the beloved founder including that of his own son Sidney recalling him as a warm and loving father as well as a great leader.
1843 | Birth and death of son George Edward Tuttle 1845 | Birth of son Sidney Tuttle 1845 1849 | Birth of son William Wey Tuttle 1855 | Clarissa Steele (mother of George) dies 1863 | Son Sidney Tuttle matriculates to Union College and is initiated to Psi Upsilon 1868 | Ruth Coswell Tuttle nee Wey passes away; George retires from business; Sidney Tuttle Sr. (father of George) passes away; George sells business and retires 1870 | Prior to this year marries Sarah Donnelly per the US Census 1878 | Attends semi-centennial of Psi Upsilon 1880 | Prior to 1880 George and Sarah move to Bath, NY
At his home in Bath, New York, George passed peacefully in 1903. Edward Martindale remained the only surviving founder at that time and had not seen his dear friend George in over seventy years despite correspondences and promises from both men to do so. Martindale said one of the great regrets of his life was not seeing George again in person before his passing 4. The founders of Psi Upsilon rooted in our society in many great traditions and values and among those treasures comes the bonds of friendship so exemplified in the life and legacy of our founder George Washington Tuttle. Sources: 1. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LZ99-RWW/george-w.-tuttle-1817-1903 2. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/L7CS-25M/john-tuttle-1746-1825 3. https://www.psiuarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Annals-of-PsiUpsilon_1833-1941_The-Reprints_.pdf 4. https://www.psiuarchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/ConventionRecords_May_1903.pdf#search=Tuttle 5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Tuttle-4714
1882 | Sends his regrets that he could not attend that year’s Convention 1903 | George dies and is buried at Bath, the Psi Upsilon Convention memorializes him.
Nondage Cemetary Bath, Steuben County, New York Photo by Barbara Gibson
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